Note 12 — Chapter XC · (Vetála 16.)

Then his parents, tortured with sorrow, lamented, and Śankhachúḍa again and again blamed his own negligence. But Jímútaváhana’s wife, Malayavatí, looked towards the heaven, and in accents choked with tears thus reproached the goddess Ambiká, who before was pleased with her, and granted her a boon, “At that time, O goddess Gaurí, thou didst promise me that I should have for husband one destined to be paramount sovereign over all the kings of the Vidyádharas, so how comes it that thou hast now falsified thy promise to me?” When she said this, Gaurí became visible, and saying “Daughter, my speech was not false,” she quickly sprinkled Jímútaváhana with nectar from her pitcher.12 That made the successful hero Jímútaváhana at once rise up more splendid than before, with all his limbs free from wounds.